A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient level of autonomy...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
As I treat my crusade to remaining 'polyglot' very serious, I'm putting significant focus on The BEAM (Erlang [http://www.erlang.org/] VM) as a platform & Elixir [http://elixir-lang.org/] in particular. Why Elixir over Erlang? It's quite a long story that deserves...
I seriously DO think that PowerPoint is an abomination, one of the worst Microsoft products ever & extensive using PowerPoint is a straightforward method of crippling you brain. Permanently ;P And as I keep repeating these statements whenever I have an occasion (someone mentions PowerPoint), there's always someone...
Budapest is absolutely stunning in April. Beautiful. Charming. Adorable. Marvelous. Its magnificence is so overwhelming that I had difficulties with fully focusing on Craft Conf 2015 [http://craft-conf.com/2015] - very interesting conference that took place few days ago in Budapest exactly. Interesting enough to write a blog post...
Have you heard about Lambda Architecture (LA)? It's an interesting concept introduced by Nathan Marz ("the father" of Apache Storm [https://storm.apache.org/]) and it's basically about processing massive quantitive of data using two parallel streams: * batch stream - this one is able...
I'm recently a bit fixated on the idea of high performance workplaces. What makes a bunch of people (with all the surroundings) performing like a Swiss watch, or at least better than another gang (with similar abilities, working on congenial products)? Obviously the answer ain't trivial...
Few days ago I've written a blog post about feature teams - I wasn't hiding that it was inspired by C. Larman's book about scaling Agile. Or rather by one of the chapters that I've found very interesting & thought-provoking. There'...
